Deborah Barnes, a professor in the UCSF departments of psychiatry, epidemiology and biostatistics, said there was no difference between combat blast survivors who had served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the other trauma victims.

Marion County also already has a high prevalence of asthma, with 1 in 5 children and 1 in 10 adults suffering from the disease, according to Joe Gibson, director of epidemiology at the Marion County Department of Public Health.

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Origin and Etymology of epidemiology

borrowed from French, Spanish, or New Latin; French épidémiologie, borrowed from Spanish epidemiología, borrowed from New Latin epidēmiologia, from Medieval Latin epidēmia "disease affecting a large number of individuals, epidemic" + New Latin -o--o- + -logia-logy — more at 1epidemic

Note:New Latin epidēmiologia was used in the title of a treatise by the Calabrian physician Quinto Tiberio Angelerio (1532-1617), Epidemiologia, sive Tractatus de peste (Madrid, 1598), a second edition of his earlier work Ectypa pestilentis status Algheriae Sardiniae (Cagliari, 1588), detailing methods to cope with a plague outbreak in Alghero, Sardinia, in 1582-83. The Latin word was revived by the Spanish physician Joaquín de Villalba (1752-1807) in his Epidemiología española (Madrid, 1802), a history of epidemics in Spain that was widely disseminated in Europe.